Kathleen A. Maloy, JD, PhD
Research Consultant – Washington, DC

Dr. Maloy has worked for 30 years to improve the lives of low-income and vulnerable populations by engaging in research, policy, and advocacy focused on health equity and social justice. Her expertise include Medicaid, Medicare, healthcare financing reform, state health and mental health policy, intersection of health and public health policy, and the social determinants of health. Her strengths include translating complex research and policy issues into language accessible to diverse audiences, and conducting evaluation and community-based participatory research designed to understand how to effect outcomes or implement system change. Dr. Maloy’s recent work has focused on how to achieve health equity by creating conditions conducive to health-producing communities.

Dr. Maloy spent 10 years at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services as Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Senior Research Staff Scientist at the Center for Health Services Research and Policy. She also directed the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program. Dr. Maloy previously served as Deputy Director of the Center for Mental Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies at Vanderbilt University. Before that, she was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Mental Health Policy Resource Center in Washington D.C. and also served as Chief Legal Counsel for the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Dr. Maloy was a Pew Fellow at Boston University where she received her doctorate in health policy in 1990, and holds a JD (1979) from Boston College and a BA (1974) from Wellesley College.

Dr. Maloy’s research has focused on how evaluation can be designed, conducted, interpreted, and presented to inform practice and policymaking in the real world. Her substantial state level work sharpened understanding that policy-useful research must account for realities of implementation and operation Dr. Maloy has served as principal investigator on numerous research representing collectively several million dollars designed to inform federal and state officials and legislators about the impact of policies and legislation.

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